Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potatoes in the ground in Ireland, nearly ruined the French wheat crop, brought disastrous business to summer resorts?all Europe fried last week. Newspapers, eager to blame anything from the cost of living to the morals of the younger generation on the U. S., wrote columns about the "American heat." Only wine and wheat growers rejoiced, hoped that the dry, hot weather would revive the remnant of their water-logged crops...
Great Britain. Temperatures went up to 93°, stayed there. In a week of blazing heat 77 people died of heat stroke, heart failure, drownings. Waitresses in ABC and Lyons' shops refused to serve men in shirtsleeves, later capitulated. Naked urchins were chased from fountains by perspiring bobbies. Traffic was suspended on the London & North Eastern Railway when rails expanded out of gauge. Under the glass roof of Olympia the British Confectioners' Exposition was abandoned when tons of chocolate creams melted in gooey puddles...
...Hastings five trained bears, crazed by the heat, tore their trainer Adolf Cossmeyer, to pieces...
Four soldiers of the Brigade of Guards dropped dead of heat stroke on maneuvres in Surrey...
...many potent clients- among them Radio Corp., Timken Oil Burner, Studebaker Motors, Westinghouse Electric, Cleveland Tractor, Hoover Vacuum Cleaner, Detroit Aircraft, Koken Barber Supply, Hudson Motors, Majestic Radio, Petroleum Heat & Power...